Arduino is an Italian platform for creative programmers and electronics engineers. For a better understanding of the form factor itself, this platform can be described as an electronic board that combines all the necessary components to program a microcontroller and connect various sensors and sensors to it.
Arduino is great for teaching basic skills in electronics, automation and robotics to both children and adults. This platform can be used to build a robot-machine, a small lamp, an element of the smart home. Programming is done with the help of a special environment Arduino IDE, based on the C-like language, as well as the language of Scratch.
What are the capabilities of Arduino?
Despite the simplicity in programming and sensor connection, the platform can be used to create fairly complex projects, combining the algorithms of many devices in the IOT (Internet of Things), smart home, gaming robots, drones. Also arduino is great for designing small prototypes of various electronics.